Proverbs 7

1My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.Cross-references: Deut 11:28 · Job 22:22 · Prov 1:8 · Prov 2:1 · Prov 3:1 · Prov 10:14 · +6 more

2Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.Cross-references: Lev 18:5 · Deut 32:10 · Ps 17:8 · Prov 4:4 · Prov 4:13 · Isa 55:3 · +7 more

3Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.Cross-references: Deut 6:8 · Deut 11:18 · Prov 3:3 · Prov 6:21 · Isa 30:8 · Jer 17:1 · +2 more

4Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,Cross-references: Job 17:14 · Prov 2:2 · Prov 4:6 · Song 8:1 · Matt 12:49 · Luke 11:27

5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.Cross-references: Prov 2:16 · Prov 5:3 · Prov 6:24

6For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.Cross-references: Gen 26:8 · Judg 5:28 · 2Sam 6:16

7I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,Cross-references: Ps 19:7 · Ps 119:130 · Prov 1:4 · Prov 1:22 · Prov 1:32 · Prov 6:32 · +15 more

8passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,Cross-references: Judg 16:1 · 2Sam 11:2 · Prov 4:14 · Prov 5:8 · Prov 7:12 · 1Cor 6:18 · +2 more

9in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.Cross-references: Gen 39:11 · Ex 12:6 · Job 24:13 · Rom 13:12 · Eph 5:11

10Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.Cross-references: Gen 3:1 · Gen 38:14 · 2Ki 9:22 · 2Ki 9:30 · Isa 3:16 · Isa 23:16 · +4 more

11She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.Cross-references: Gen 18:9 · Prov 9:13 · Prov 25:24 · Prov 27:14 · Prov 31:10 · 1Tim 5:13 · +1 more

12Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.Cross-references: Prov 9:14 · Prov 23:28 · Jer 2:20 · Jer 2:33 · Jer 2:36 · Jer 3:2 · +4 more

13So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:Cross-references: Gen 39:7 · Gen 39:12 · Num 25:1 · Num 25:6 · Num 31:16 · Prov 21:29 · +6 more

14“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.Cross-references: Lev 7:11 · Lev 7:15 · Deut 12:6 · 2Sam 15:7 · 1Ki 21:9 · Prov 15:8 · +3 more

15Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

16I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.Cross-references: 1Ki 10:28 · Prov 31:22 · Song 1:16 · Song 3:7 · Isa 19:9 · Ezek 27:7 · +1 more

17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.Cross-references: Ex 30:23 · Ps 45:8 · Song 3:6 · Song 4:13 · Isa 57:7

18Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

19For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.Cross-references: Matt 20:11 · Matt 24:43 · Matt 24:48 · Mark 13:34 · Luke 12:39 · Luke 12:45

20He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”Cross-references: 2Chr 2:4

21With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.Cross-references: Judg 16:15 · 1Sam 28:23 · 2Ki 4:8 · Ps 12:2 · Prov 5:3 · Prov 6:24 · +5 more

22He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.Cross-references: Job 13:27 · Jer 20:2 · Acts 14:13 · Acts 16:24

23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.Cross-references: Num 25:8 · Prov 1:17 · Prov 9:18 · Eccl 9:12

24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.Cross-references: Prov 4:1 · Prov 5:7 · Prov 8:32 · 1Cor 4:14 · Gal 4:19 · 1John 2:1

25Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,Cross-references: Ps 119:176 · Prov 4:14 · Prov 5:8 · Prov 5:23 · Prov 6:25 · Prov 23:31 · +2 more

26for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.Cross-references: Judg 16:21 · 2Sam 3:6 · 2Sam 3:27 · 2Sam 12:9 · 1Ki 11:1 · Neh 13:26 · +4 more

27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.Cross-references: Prov 2:18 · Prov 5:5 · Prov 9:18 · Eccl 7:26 · Rev 22:15